forcemerge 724736 724760 thanks On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:18:58PM +0200, Claudio wrote: > Package: lm-sensors > Version: 1:3.3.2-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > As reported on lm-sensors.org I quote: > > "September 5th, 2013: Hardware breakage reported Over the past few months, we > had several reports of sensors-detect causing serious trouble on recent > hardware (most notably laptops.) We still don't know what exactly is > happening, > and while it might be reversible, we don't know how, so in practice this is > equivalent to the hardware itself being broken. The symptoms are that the > display starts misbehaving ( wrong resolution or wrong gamma factor.) We have > mitigated the risk by changing the default behavior of sensors-detect to no > longer touch EDID EEPROMs and then to no longer probe graphics adapters at all > unless the user asks for it. We urge maintainers to backport changesets r6040 > and r6084 to all Linux distributions which are still shipping lm-sensors 3.3.2 > or older. Versions 3.3.3 and newer are not affected." > > Debian stable (wheezy) is using 3.3.2, I haven't personally experienced any > issues but I think it's important enough and should be looked into. >
This has already been reported as bug #724736. Merging. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
